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Originally Posted by bluejays
Glad flames fans are coming around to a rebuild. There should be banging on corporate offices to get them to do it. I said it in the off-season that they’d be making a mistake of signing middle age players to long term deals. Doubling down on a mistake rarely ever works out. Now that playoffs is slipping away it’s looking even worse because of not getting assets for this years draft. All in all I hope ownership is embarrassed at their heavy handed decisions and we can move on and do a proper rebuild. The old days of just forcing it through will never work. They’re taking a bitter pill now and finding out the hard way.
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The problem is in the end it doesn't matter what the 500 or so hardcore fans on a site like Calgary Puck will say.
The is lots of evidence that attendance will drop if the team has a prolonged time period out of the playoffs, and that is what ownership cares about.